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Re: Swedish police brutality
« Reply #15 on: August 25, 2014, 04:04:00 am »
As Nietzsche said, "He who fights monsters must see to it that in the process he does not become a monster". It might be easy to inflict evil unto evil, but that makes us no better.
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Re: Swedish police brutality
« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2014, 07:52:42 am »
As Nietzsche said, "He who fights monsters must see to it that in the process he does not become a monster". It might be easy to inflict evil unto evil, but that makes us no better.
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Re: Swedish police brutality
« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2014, 05:55:18 pm »
Regardless of the cause you support (or protest), it's generally a bad idea to provoke the police.   The horses were used exactly as they are intended to be used under these circumstances.  They are big and intimidating, and they excel at breaking up crowds.  It's unfortunate -- but not unexpected -- that people got hurt.  But the cops weren't swinging sabers, or even nightsticks.
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Re: Swedish police brutality
« Reply #18 on: August 25, 2014, 06:17:10 pm »
Hm, given how fast those things move, it'd be impossible to avoid the horses. But with a knife in hand, I might've be able to at least leave a mark by holding the knife up as the horse moves overhead.
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Re: Swedish police brutality
« Reply #19 on: August 25, 2014, 07:21:07 pm »
Regardless of the cause you support (or protest), it's generally a bad idea to provoke the police.   The horses were used exactly as they are intended to be used under these circumstances.  They are big and intimidating, and they excel at breaking up crowds.  It's unfortunate -- but not unexpected -- that people got hurt.  But the cops weren't swinging sabers, or even nightsticks.

How in the hell do you think trampling by horses isn't meant to hurt people? It seems to me that the Swedes need to learn proper crowd control if their only solution to riot is trampling by horses.

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Re: Swedish police brutality
« Reply #20 on: August 25, 2014, 08:14:16 pm »
Regardless of the cause you support (or protest), it's generally a bad idea to provoke the police.   The horses were used exactly as they are intended to be used under these circumstances.  They are big and intimidating, and they excel at breaking up crowds.  It's unfortunate -- but not unexpected -- that people got hurt.  But the cops weren't swinging sabers, or even nightsticks.

How in the hell do you think trampling by horses isn't meant to hurt people? It seems to me that the Swedes need to learn proper crowd control if their only solution to riot is trampling by horses.

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Mounted police are fairly standard in Europe for breaking up riots for pretty much the same reasons mediaeval knights were mounted.

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Re: Swedish police brutality
« Reply #21 on: August 25, 2014, 09:47:43 pm »
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Re: Swedish police brutality
« Reply #22 on: August 26, 2014, 05:23:13 pm »
I repeat: if you participate in the provocation, don't piss and moan when you get knocked on your ass.
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Re: Swedish police brutality
« Reply #23 on: August 26, 2014, 05:34:43 pm »
I repeat: if you participate in the provocation, don't piss and moan when you get knocked on your ass.

Disproportionate retribution is a very damn good reason to "piss and moan".
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